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Authors:

Manolis Marazakis is a Principal Staff Research Scientist at the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH - Greece). Marc Duranton is a member of the Research and Technology Department of the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA - France). Dirk Pleiter is a Professor of High Performance Computing at the Kungliga Tekniska högskolan Royal Institute of Technology and Director of the PDC Center for High Performance Computing (KTH - Sweden). Giuliano Taffoni is a Development Scientist at the Astronomical Observatory of Trieste, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF - Italy). Hans-Christian Hoppe is working as a senior project lead with Scapos AG (Germany).

Manolis Marazakis has received support from the European Union’s EuroHPC research and innovation programme under grant agreement 955606 (DEEP-SEA, part of the EuroHPC-012019 call - project website: https://www.deepprojects.eu ). National contributions from the involved state members (including the Greek General Secretariat for Research and Innovation) match the EuroHPC funding. Dirk Pleiter has received support from the European Union’s H2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement 823767 (PRACE-6IP, part of the (H2020-INFRAEDI-20181 call - project website: https://praceri.eu/about/ip-projects ). Giuliano Taffoni has received support from the European Union’s H2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement 824064 (ESCAPE, part of the H2020-INFRAEOSC-2018-2 call - project website: https://projectescape.eu ).

The authors would like to thank Maria S. Perez (Professor at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) for her insightful critique on earlier drafts of this whitepaper.

Cite as: M. Marazakis et al., « HPC for Urgent Decision-Making », ETP4HPC White Paper, 2022, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.6107362.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6107362

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